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The Smart #1 Is A Bargain Baby Mercedes!

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Jack goes for a first drive in the new Smart #1. With Geely underpinnings paired with Mercedes design, and an entry price over £15,000 less than the cheapest electric Merc, the #1 looks like being a great value small premium EV - but is it still a Smart car??
00:00 Intro
01:14 What have we here!
02:36 Design walk around
03:27 Minimalist boot
04:16 A very special interior
05:49 Infotainment
07:19 Stats
09:10 Driving experience
09:50 Back seat Jack test
11:08 Lane keep assist done right
12:08 Less good...
13:18 A true Smart car?
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16 авг 2024

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@DanaVastman Год назад

Agree... Not a disruptor. It's just another of many. Small, efficient and less costly would have been the SMART thing to do 😁

@choddo 11 месяцев назад

Small was why the first cars had such little range.

@timscott3027 11 месяцев назад

Not for their wallets, unfortunately for us.

@Coddiwomple4x4 11 месяцев назад

Same as for housing; they have higher margins on expensive big housing instead of small affordable ones. Shame

@concinnus 11 месяцев назад

EV efficiency is dominated by aero, and aero doesn't care how long the car is, only the drag coefficient and frontal area. So a new Smart in the shape of the ForTwo would have worse efficiency than a Tesla 3. The only reason the ForTwo was efficient is weight and engine size, neither of which matter much on EVs. So, if you need an EV with the space efficiency of a stubby car, plus decent range, you also need a large battery. And the extra cost of EVs is all battery, so you're SoL. If you don't need much range, this channel has covered cheaper cars with lower range. Admittedly, small is the part of the market Smart should be playing in, but with lithium prices so volatile there's probably no business case right now.

@cypvh74 11 месяцев назад

@@concinnusgiven the same frontal area and same basic shape, a longer object has better aero than the shorter object. A brick will have a lower drag than a cube for example.

@QALibrary Год назад

When I first time I saw this I was thinking it was a mini replacement but this is so much better than a new mini

@Foucault2001 11 месяцев назад

It’s actually fractionally bigger than a mini clubman rather than a normal mini (though that’s bound to get bigger when the new one launches later this year, especially as the ORA Funky Cat is almost as big as the Smart #1)

@QALibrary 11 месяцев назад

@@Foucault2001 Since BMW took over Mini not sure if the size has grown by 25% or 50% and from all reports it only going to get bigger

@chrispnw2547 10 месяцев назад

The Smart #1 is slightly smaller than than a MINI Countryman. Smart #1 - 4,270 mm , 2025 MINI Countryman - 4429 mm. The 159 mm difference is n the boot of the Countryman.

@antoniopalmero4063 Год назад

£20k would be a smart price .

@ayosworld 5 месяцев назад

depreciation hit in 3 years will make sense then

@nutsandy7183 Год назад

I loved my 2017 Smart ForTwo, it had everything you needed including heated seats, satnav, bluetooth, panoramic roof, climate control. It was the 0.9L petrol auto one and it was surprisingly quick (everyone underestimated it), the horn was made for a much more imposing vehicle, turning circle put a smile on my face, the interior was roomy and the boot , though small could hold 7 paxks of pepsi (24 can packs) and we used it to go on holiday for a week or more away, packing our two cases, 2 laptop bags, and a vacuum packed feather duver, sheet and 4 feather pillows slid down between the seat back and boot. So many good memories, and people taking photos when we reversed up to the curb to park it 8). This new one wont live up to the brand… i want them to do a faithful version again, it was so good. Maybe improve the handling a bit though!

@evolv.e Год назад

Proud owner of two smarts (2013 cabrio electric drive and a 2014 coupe electric drive). I’m very disappointed that MB/Geely thought that this is what the smart community would buy. It’s lost all of what makes the smarts before it iconic and desirable. Not only that, it’s priced far too high. It’s practically the same price as Mercedes own EQA (which looks essentially the same) and the EQB. If I wanted a “bargain baby Mercedes” for this kind of money, I’d just buy an actual Mercedes. smh. Maybe they’ll get the next smart right. 🤞🏼

@Slim-Bagel 11 месяцев назад

I miss the original Smart people, culture, and cars

@GudieveNing 11 месяцев назад

I suppose this design is subjective. Love the front though.

@evolv.e 11 месяцев назад

@@GudieveNing funny thing is.. I photoshopped the smart badging off the car, and replaced the front and rear “smart” badging with Mercedes three pointed star emblems, and voila.. the car suddenly looks alright to me. Why? Because it’s essentially a MB EQA wearing smart badges. The world has had two plus decades of a smart looking like a smart, priced like a smart, and behaving like a smart. This “#1” looks like an imposter. And that’s why it just looks wrong wearing the smart name. If I bought this car, the *first* thing I’d do is remove or cover every mention of smart or it’s logo, replace them with three-pointed stars, and only then would it look and feel right driving this thing. Oh, and the “#1” is definitely coming off as well. If I were to display a model name at all, I’d place a MB “EQ” badge in front of just the 1.. displaying “EQ1”. Because if I’m paying that much for a rebranded MB, it might as well just look like a MB.

@robwainfur2073 29 дней назад

@@evolv.e Love my Smart ForFour. So quirky with many gadgets and luxury items. Agree with you that it gets underestimated. .9 Turbo has more power than people think for a small car. Love it.

@bentp4891 Год назад

Jack has a different understanding of the word affordable than I have

@andreiionescu205 Год назад

Robert îs the same,fancy home,solar panels,they are acting Like everyone has their money and can buy anything

@sixpackpilot Год назад

I said the same in earlier reviews. This is not an affordable car for the majority of people in most European countries. Maybe it is affordable if you own a house in central London, Amsterdam or perhaps Monaco.

@Likr666 Год назад

Smart was always overpriced. Now it's just another segment.

@MarkXHolland Год назад

It will take time for EVs to become affordable for used car buyers.

@kraenk12 Год назад

37K is below the average car price people pay these days.

@mozzaev Год назад

Test drove one at the weekend, and I would have a Smart #1 over any EQA or EQB and it's cheaper than them.. The interior is excellent from Mercedes and it drives like a dream..

@kraenk12 Год назад

Absolutely!

@MaticTheProto Год назад

Yeah, so many haters here have never driven a #1 and it shows

@rflach42 11 месяцев назад

The only thing EQx can do better u is the foldable trailer hook. Smart come with a pretty standard detachable one…

@K1989L 9 месяцев назад

I'd pick a Fortwo EQ in a heartbeat before any of the above.

@liammullan2197 Год назад

Such a shame they've abandoned the original Smart car concept - you could park two of the them in the space of a regular car.

@surturiel Год назад

As a former fortwo owner (that loved the thing) it was too much of a compromise, not giving you back enough trade-off. Never made Mercedes any money, it was too heavy for its size to still be highway safe, and the fuel economy just wasn't there.

@roguebullet4220 Год назад

Hey. Current fortwo eq owner here. I think they are perfect. Great on motorways, round town, parking etc & i can get a weeks shopping in it (without a passenger 😅). It is a shame they have moved away from the truly small design...

@garrycroft4215 Год назад

There will be a smaller model called the #2

@Split10uk Год назад

@@garrycroft4215 Yeah right.....The #2 should have about the same measures as the #1 apart from height, which will be lower due to the coupe body style it adopts.

@NickFoster Год назад

Yup. I had left-hand drive one back in the day and loved it. With the glass roof it felt really spacious but I could reach all the way across it at ticket barriers 😂

@coreygrua3271 Год назад

“I have no idea what that means.” This is but one reason why I appreciate Jack.

@stevenbollinger9776 11 месяцев назад

Jack is following Socrates' example. Socrates said "I know that I know nothing." But wait, there's more! He also knew that others knew nothing, but thought that they knew a lot. His refusal to over-estimate his own mind gave Socrates his edge. About 2000 years later, Erasmus said something similar: "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." "in regione caecorum rex est luscus" I know that I am a pseudo-intellectual fool. Jack's great, I agree.

@MrQwerty3000 11 месяцев назад

You're reviewing Jack?

@SingleTrackMined Год назад

Your vids are always a pleasure - very infotaining. I like this car a lot and the Volvo, too. There's room for simpler and less expensive in the market. Cheers!

@arildedvardbasmo490 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the review! Agreed on the lack of disruption... For young people, it'd be cool to see some reviews of 2-5 year old electric cars in use today - not just new ones that youngsters can't afford anyway 😅

@MikeLoomis 11 месяцев назад

When battery tech finally catches up, which seems like it's coming sooner than later now, and a car like this can have double the range with the same size battery, a vehicle of this size will be the perfect sweet spot for me.

@michaelbond6842 11 месяцев назад

Love the opinion! Smart has never been cheap, but this, as you say, kinda misses an opportunity. Missing our old Smart Roadster (2nd hand, naturally) since we had to trade. What an electric car THAT would make!

@riotofmyown 11 месяцев назад

There’s a guy that converted one on RU-vid. It took him a year, but a great idea/project.

@jerrysacct Год назад

I always enjoy your car reviews . You manage to deliver all the tech and current EV updates with intelligence and humor. Thank you

@lemagnitio72 Год назад

Humour? Jack has the sense of humour of a 10 year old.

@anthonyworley2891 11 месяцев назад

That’s the point. We car nuts are like ten year old kids in a candy shop.

@niklaswejedal463 Год назад

I am so with you in your conclusion! And to me "Smart" (as a concept or an idea, not the car brand) is the very antithesis of "Luxury". If you are smart, you will be perfectly able make do with a minimum of resources and you are beyond the need for luxury just for the sake of luxury itself... I miss the "integral helmet"-look of the real Smart - and since there is mostly "nothing" in the front of this, there is no reason this could not have had a similar nose as the first one. Skip that two-box suv look allready! And yeah - car-names these days are beyond pointless: #1, 1, One, 01, 001 - oh, come on!

@markbelchamber1303 11 месяцев назад

I drove a Smart Roadster as my only car for 4 years, and that had a range of about 270 miles too. Small, efficient, fun. It had very few features (CD player, electric windows, air con and that was about it). An electric version of that would be fantastic.

@raysmith1971 Год назад

1:40 £35,950 for it's size is expensive. Can Fully Charged stop saying expensive small cars are 'affordable' when it's near Tesla money and nowhere near a Tesla in value.

@danielstefanovic2604 Год назад

yep when you can get a ex30 or mg4 for around 30 000

@Harrythehun Год назад

They are depending on add revenue, so they and all the others can’t say or show the all negatives if they want get free press cars to review.

@FFVoyager Год назад

Have you looked at the price of a VW Golf these days? Chose all the options and it's close to £40k - and that's not even the GTI!

@hououinkyouma1458 Год назад

yeah that's the price of a model 3

@CANC3ROUS Год назад

He said "relatively affordable" 🤷🏽

@cjoe6908 9 месяцев назад

Went to see one last weekend and the car put a big smile on my gf's face. Will take a closer look at both the #1 and #3.

@macjim Год назад

It must be Xmas! Jacks got his Xmas cardigan on! 🎉🥳🍾🎁🎈🎊👯‍♀️👯

@Mobile_Dom 11 месяцев назад

imagine if they had given us an EV smart roadster, a small 2 seater, lightweight, rear wheel drive, maybe 100hp or so, and just let it be a fun street legal go kart

@wosamosman9814 11 месяцев назад

What kind of range would it have though 😅. I would wager 100 miles or less 😅

@Mobile_Dom 11 месяцев назад

given people made electric smart roadsters with old gen1 leaf batteries and random motors almost a decade ago, I highly doubt it@@wosamosman9814

@RWBHere 11 месяцев назад

That's right; 100 miles or less until its first accident... @@wosamosman9814

@iaintdonknow 11 месяцев назад

Honda E for example or the Mini Electric or the Mazda with only 120 mile range, nobody wants that!

@Mobile_Dom 10 месяцев назад

@@iaintdonknow i mean i want the honda e, just not with that battery, but i get what you mean

@lowfuel6089 Год назад

One nice thing about this is when anyone at Smart says this should be called the "hashtag 1", Smart can immediately fire them for being idiots. Great way to clear the employee pool of that nonsense.

@BMWHP2 Год назад

Thanks for the video. We always had a Smart since they first came to the market around 1999. We are a two person household, so perfect for us. After the last one, a 2017 Smart cabrio Brabus, (we still drive) we wont buy a Smart anymore. Smarts stopped building the 2-door ICE cabrios, and the EV version has a, for us, unusable silly range. It is our only ride, and take it on longer road trips of 2000km back and forth. With a 100km EV range, the EV Smart cant replace an ICE car. The new #1 is not a cabrio anymore and has 4 doors. So, it was the last Smart we bought. Wewill wait for any other small 2-door (cabrio) EV. Some Chinese EV's are good, the 42kWh Fiat 500e Cabrio was perfect, but at close to €40.000. . . . ridiculous. Enough 4-door EV's to chose from for people with kids, . . . . about every bloody EV has 4-doors. Waste of material for many.

@dr-k1667 Год назад

SMART was the first brand I really got into before Tesla and it was a great group of fans around the original car. I remember fondly a work mate letting me drive his around the company parking lot. I loved seeing them and was excited when they were going to make them fully electric. Let's just say the spirit of SMART isn't being represented here just the name, but for some I hope they love this car and support the brand. There's time and room for a SMART EV that harkens back to the original when they get economies of scale and become profitable. One hopes that fun, small, efficient EV's will be more and more available with time as we change over from ICE. I'm glad the brand still exists and hope they look back to what made them SMART and carry that forward into this EV future. Thanks for the coverage!

@evolv.e Год назад

Well said.

@spacecadet1249 Год назад

you would think that making an EV (with only 20 moving parts) would be a whole lot cheaper than making a petrol car with 2000 moving parts.

@evolv.e 11 месяцев назад

@@spacecadet1249 it is in many cases, minus the hyper fast sun 4 second performance specific ones.. which are actually a fair price considering they obliterate most super cars for less $ and a whole lot less maintenance and cost to insure, maintain, fuel.. well, you get the point.

@ramblerandy2397 9 месяцев назад

There is the old true story of early years Tesla having Mercedes engineers come to look at their EV Roadster era technology. They gave them PowerPoint presentations and the Merc engineers were yawning and annoyed for having to make the trip. Then Musk asked them if they'd like to see a fully electric Smart. Yes they would, came the answer. Truth is, a few weeks before the Merc enginners were due, Tesla were virtually going out of business [one of several times back then], and needed investment. So one employee went to Mexico [where Smarts were sold], bought a car and drove it back. They spent the time converting it to electric with Roadster technology. It was so powerful it could do wheelies, and all the battery and tech fitted inside without showing. The Merc enginners totally loved it and recommended major investment that got Tesla through a really bad patch. So if Tesla could do it in 2009, perhaps Merc could do it in 2023, but leave out the wheelies? Oh, and take a little more time about it.

@simoncanfer5030 Год назад

Well MG won't be worried at that price😂

@EXSKIN 11 месяцев назад

X power 37'000ish fast smart 43'000ish you're right.

@funkyfin3023 Год назад

Not a COTY. Get the base Fisker Ocean for £36.5K from a class up. If you can wait a year….. First RHD one arrived in UK today apparently. Shame they didn’t bring out a smaller Smart with smaller battery at a lower price as a city car. If you want an EV this size, join the other queue for its cousin the EX30.

@didierpuzenat7280 11 месяцев назад

I am 50+ years old and I love this fox, especially since it does not seems to slow the interface.

@MichaelSmith-us9ch 11 месяцев назад

12:42 screen ... I'm 77 and it appeals to me and my two daughters are equally delighted to see some "fun stuff" instead of the boring screens of most other cars. Thank you....

@mdtrx Год назад

Couldn't care less about brands. It's a very good competitor to Niro, EX30, ID3 etc. I would choose this over any of them. Then again, I wouldn't buy a crossover. I would buy a sensible high quality electric estate - there isn't one. Well, Taycan sport turismo, but that isn't sensible.

@BAndersen-ee1xy Год назад

I think this is brilliant. It makes perfect sense that it is ~€40k, Mercedes quality, good range AND proper power. The fact is that the ultra efficient, low cost, Smart, you think they should have made, it simply did not and would not sell. This is aimed more at 500e, MG ZS, that have more than hands full of potential customers. And the price point is very appropriate and realistic considering where we are with new technologies, supply chain b.s., etc., etc. And “excessive power”!? What does that even mean? The Brabus variant looks incredible.

@dna9838 Год назад

Why would anyone copy the opel Adam c-pillar?!

@chazzyb8660 Год назад

I thought it was a mini. It would be better if it had been. But then again a mini hasn't been a mini for quite a while?

@richcolour Год назад

I bought my brand new Smart 24 years ago. It was left-hand drive because they hadn't made any UK spec models at that time. Total price on the road £5,400. Loved it to bits. £36,000 is ridiculous. Where's the fun gone, Smart?

@AliWade1971 Год назад

Your Smart was a bargain. I had a LHD X reg in 2001, and it cost £11k (it was a Passion in True Blue with every extra 😀) - from Smart Birmingham

@spacecadet1249 Год назад

Do you think the new price really smarts?

@MaticTheProto Год назад

The fun is there, try driving one

@Fireflylanterns 11 месяцев назад

Jack is I think , following in the footsteps of Jonny Smith , the best motoring journalist out there. Very little of the usual testosterone nonsense but masses of enthusiasm, good sense , and natural talent. I have a bit of a man crush. Don’t loose him fully charged. He is one of your greatest assets.

@davidwright1605 Год назад

I'm old enough to have lived before twitter. In the olden days # was an abbreviation for number. Is it possible this car is called "number 1" rather than "hashtag 1" ?

@acjdf Год назад

I hope so!

@PhineasPhlob 11 месяцев назад

Nope.

@JS-hw8ve 11 месяцев назад

This car NOT being like the old Smart vehicles is a plus. People HATED the Smart. They had a very niche fanbase. Now, more people might actually buy them. Audio by Beats? LOL. Oh, sure... a company known for brand recognition and using off the shelf parts is a real good selling point. LOL.

@golly2561 Год назад

Really not a fan of the way this looks. Not sure why Jack is gushing over this.

@JohnnyZenith Год назад

Me neither.

@wingsounds13 Год назад

And I'll voice my dissenting opinion. I think that this is one of the better looking new EVs. I particularly like the fact that it is all soft corners, not hard edges.

@cmpc724 Год назад

Because taste is subjective. I really like it and not sure why you don’t 😅

@Erikkrols Год назад

Building goodwill with the brand

@f56yn25 Год назад

Because Jack is paid to say he likes it. He says the same thing for every car he drives.

@rommeo27 Год назад

the giant panoramic glass is a no go for me , hot in the summer, cold in the winter

@kumbackquatsta Год назад

not for your demographic anyways

@evolv.e Год назад

⁠@@kumbackquatstahopefully not for anyone’s demographic outside of China. The might be a “cheap” baby “Mercedes”, but is an awful smart. China can keep this #1 (terrible name) as it’s priced far too high to wear the smart badge. If I wanted to actually own an affordable baby Mercedes, I’d just buy an a Mercedes EQA for the same price or an EQB for a tiny bit more.

@MaticTheProto Год назад

Unlike the tesla this has a sunshade

@evolv.e 11 месяцев назад

@@MaticTheProto I have a retractable sun shade for my Tesla. My Smart coupe dies too. I guess you can say my smart cabrio’s roof *is* the retractable sun shade. There are days I wish my electric motorcycle had a sun shade 😅

@williamclark6466 11 месяцев назад

I love your comments about what it would take to be a Smart, proper disruptor.

@advandermeer740 Год назад

Let's talk about the elephant in the room: Its weight. The Tesla Model Y is about the same weight, but is 50 cm longer (and wider and taller). That same Tesla Model Y has a range than is 10 miles longer than this "tiny" car that is 2 segments smaller with a comparable sized battery.

@MrAdopado Год назад

Lightest Model Y is 384kg or 847 lbs heavier. Clearly not "about the same weight"!

@advandermeer740 Год назад

@@MrAdopado The Smart #1 is 1820 kg, Model Y RWD 1890 kg

@muffty1337 Год назад

35K is not affordable for my 40hour/week Job... Am i missing something?

@samusaran7317 Год назад

Apartment too?

@andreiionescu205 Год назад

Just get a better job,joking,people with money can Say that a 100 k car îs cheap,its just from the context

@mluu510 Год назад

I work 40hr/week too. I can afford it. Being rich isn't about the hours. Work smarter, buddy

@ObiePaddles Год назад

The word ‘relatively’

@muffty1337 11 месяцев назад

@@mluu510 you didn't get the memo.

@ristekostadinov2820 11 месяцев назад

4:00 411L cargo space for a compact hatchback/cross is not terrible, i mean it's similar to Ford Puma and 28L smaller than T-Roc.

@dr.andersonsghost4315 Год назад

This isn't a bargain Mercedes. It's an expensive Geely. Mercedes is responsible purely for its styling.

@davidmmm Год назад

And for sure, best designers are cheap to pay and those premium materials too.

@dr.andersonsghost4315 Год назад

@@davidmmm Designers are in fact very affordable compared to the engineers (electrical, chemical, mechanical, etc.) who actually engineered and developed this car.

@yaronof1 11 месяцев назад

Great review! first time I've watched one of your videos, certainly not the last. Thank you

@stuartburns8657 Год назад

Problem aeems to be, that those that can affford to be early adopters have brought (mostly vastly more expensive) EV's, inline with the market S curve (10%) but it feels like it's not gained enough momentum or trust even. Over 80% of the UK car market is 2nd hand vehicles. Without the trust and confidence in the infrastructure, never mind the cost of public charging and expensive of EV's, rough times ahead? The likes of Volkswagon / Ford winding down production, whilst EV batteries seem to be getting bigger, thus exasperating the lithium costs, thus making it difficult to introduce affordable cars, which take years to filter into the 2nd hand market. Phew. All this talk about having to introduce battery health warranty and other such initiatives is quite telling

@anthonyworley2891 11 месяцев назад

Jack is spot on with what a Smart could be. The battery technology is coming up fast in the rear view mirror so perhaps we will get the car we hope for.

@toyotaprius79 Год назад

IT'S NOT A SMART The gall of Daimler and Geely to not even reengineer the ForTwo microcar to be the competitive and popular icon it should be.

@evolv.e Год назад

Couldn’t agree more. This car is a major disappointment to smart fans. Should have just been badged and sold as a MB EQA or some other EQ derivative. Especially at this price.

@kraenk12 Год назад

That’s like saying a Cayenn3 is not a Porsche. it’s just ignorant.

@evolv.e Год назад

@@kraenk12 clearly you don’t own a smart. I agree with the OP. This is a car from a GEELY/MB partnership with the styling of a MB EQA, the functionality of a Geely, and none of what made smarts desirable to its buyers over two decades. When BMW acquired Mini Cooper, they had the intelligence to retain what people loved about the originals. When VW released the new Beetle and Microbus, they understood what made these vehicles iconic in the first place. Even Fiat retained much of the charm that the original 500 was known for. This “#1” is just a lazy exercise in slapping a badge n a car that looks like a Mercedes, but isn’t.

@martshearer498 Год назад

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if Mercedes wanted a smart forfour, they would have given smart the Bionic concept. Mercedes designers were never comfortable with the Swatch influence, which was half of what made smart -- smart. Will the #1 come in orange, green, yellow or blue? Will the interior fabrics feature swirls or bright colors? Mercedes killed smart by insisting it grow up. 😢

@jamesengland7461 11 месяцев назад

They could no longer sell the Smart profitably. It simply expired as a market force.

@Niamato_inc Год назад

The lovely little bingy-bongy bit almost took me out. Jack, mate you’re the goat 🐐.

@44Bigs Год назад

Usually when you go down in size, you go down in luxury. Nice to see Merc building a luxurious “compact” car. I like it!

@AlbertLamarque Год назад

This is Geely building it. Mercedes has nothing to do with anything close to manufacturing.

@showme360 Год назад

Totally agree Jack with your closing statement. Beautifully put together no question and nicely styled, but no Smart Car in our eyes!! They are literally handing over on a plate to the Chinese car manufactures to disrupt the industry.

@angela1984a Год назад

Guess who owns 50% of "Smart"... Geely does...

@MaticTheProto Год назад

@@angela1984athey also own all of volvo and lotus and guess what? They seem to be very good at their craft

@angela1984a 11 месяцев назад

@@MaticTheProto There's also zero human rights in China. And China has not condemned the Russian Dictator's Genocide in Ukraine. There's no way I'm buying a Chinese car.

@MaticTheProto 11 месяцев назад

@@angela1984a seeing what America has done in recent history buying American isn’t any more morally correct. Also you probably typed that on an Iphone, no?

@angela1984a 11 месяцев назад

@@MaticTheProto So buy a European car then. The US is currently a Democracy. China is NOT a Democracy. Typing on a Macbook. Apple is not a Chinese owned corporation.

@turbokadett 11 месяцев назад

The Smart #1 Is just another out of reach EV, stop describing £35k cars as affordable! Just because it's at the lower end of EV pricing doesn't make it affordable! As for Jacks slight on Smart's Previous EV offerings; I owned a Smart ForTwo ED (451) and I certainly wouldn't describe its battery milage as bad, I would regularly see 80 miles from a full charge (16.5kWh) and the flappy paddle regen meant that I often completed my commute without touching the brake pedal. It was a fantastic car and the only reason I sold it is I bought a broken Mitsubishi i-Miev, fixed it and found it rode the crappy roads of Wiltshire far more comfortably (Longer wheelbase) than the ED so I sold it for £1k more than I bought it for. I miss that car and would one one again in a heartbeat.

@marioseoul Год назад

Just call it Number 1! The first electric Smart. (Also think of "pound 1" but pound's association with # is more for dialing touch-tone phones). Nice review as always, and as usual... looking wistfully at another cool car abroad not being brought to the US

@evolv.e Год назад

.. but it’s not the first electric smart. Not even close. I’ve got two fully electric smarts in my garage that I adore - one coupe and one cabrio. This car from Geely/MB.. meh, not a fan. I don’t understand why they just didn’t sell it as an actual “bargain baby Mercedes”. It stands a bette chance of selling as an EQA than it does as a needlessly expensive “smart”. And the name #1 is just stupid. I’m officially calling this vehicle dumb.

@AliWade1971 Год назад

First electric Smart? I own a 2021 Smart ForTwo EQ that definitely doesn’t have an engine !

@marioseoul Год назад

Well then, it's a terrible name. :-) Thanks to both for letting me know about another model I was unaware of

@evolv.e Год назад

@@AliWade1971 exactly. My smart electric drive cabrio is a 2013 and my smart electric drive coupe is a 2014. The first electric smarts hit the streets back in 2007, ranked as the greenest car in 2014, and the first auto manufacturer to fully switch over to all electric in 2017. I am a bit jelly as I’d LOVE to own the 2021 smart electric, but sadly weren’t imported into NA. I love the styling so much, I’ve given serious consideration to pay to have one shipped to the US. I wish I could say the same about this Geely/MB mash up. It’s lost so much of what made smarts unique and desirable.

@AliWade1971 Год назад

@@evolv.e Thank you for adding details. I couldn’t remember exactly when the first Smart Electric was sold, so didn’t want to guess. Yes, the 2021 is fantastic, and my Racing Green edition is even more special. If you can afford to import one, then go for it. We were at the Mercedes/Smart dealership last week and borrowed a Brabus #1 for a few hours. Drives very well. They had 2 brand new ForTwo left. So sad to think there are no more.

@Wolfenion Год назад

The price of the ForTwo was too high, which is why they didn't sell well. I played with the idea of buying one 5 years ago, but it was the same price as a Zoe!

@samusaran7317 Год назад

Thats wild considering the battery size difference.

@JoeyBlogs007 11 месяцев назад

I dint like the way those tablet displays seem to create a blind spot in front of the vehicle, but difficult to gauge from a video.

@AlRoderick Год назад

Kind of disagree on the storage. Keeping the boot small to keep the overall size of the vehicle down is a good move. Like you said you can fold the seats down to hold more stuff. And the fact that they gave you just a little bit of storage up front. It's better than my Chevy bolt where they give you none. I really like having a little bit of lockable storage that's not in the passenger compartment to store a little bit of emergency gear you'll need very rarely.

@Dokuji 7 месяцев назад

I am very intrigued by this new brand. Mercedes working on fit and finish is unparalleled. I agree, they need to target a more budget friendly price point to really make headway. But, sadly, it's irrelevant to me living in the US. I will most likely never get to own one of these. :/

@nirst79 11 месяцев назад

Nice video as always Jack. One thing though - as much as its useful to know a 6'5" man can be comfortable driving it, it would also be useful to understand the experience of say a 5'4" woman too. It's often the case that the drivers cabin doesn't accommodate small women very well and I'm always keen to know how my wife would get on driving it.

@TWOKDOK1 11 месяцев назад

I'm not😀

@julianrussell2154 11 месяцев назад

I wonder how the Volvo ex30 which is the same platform and “volvier/boxier” looking has 90l less boot space?

@lisadefries6718 2 месяца назад

Well I love the info graphics so its probably pandering to me as I have owned 3 smart cars consecutively 😊

@Calm_wisdom Год назад

£35,000+ for a car is not a bargain at any stretch of the imagination. How out of touch can you be?

@evolv.e Год назад

💯 agree. A Tesla Model 3 and many other BEV’s, like an electric Mini Cooper would be a MUCH better purchase. Geely/MB need to fire whomever signed off of this being a smart car. At this price (and they way it looks) is needed to be badged and sold as a Mercedes EQA. If I saw this on the street, I would not recognize this as a smart car. And I own two smart electric drives. 🙏🏻 MB, if you’re reading this, please do not bring this outside of the Chinese market and sell this as a smart, or you will alienate the smart community you’ve built up over the last 20+ years.

@MichaelGGarry Год назад

Depends where you live - over here in Singapore people would snap your hands off for a car like this with an on-the-road price of only 35k!

@Calm_wisdom Год назад

@@MichaelGGarry in that case, this would be 60,523 Singapore dollars

@Calm_wisdom Год назад

@@evolv.e The whole concept is disappointing. I've owned an mk3 (2013) smart car for 9 years and nothing could beat it in terms of cost and fun factor. But this is something else 🤮

@GregHighPressure Год назад

you need to appreciate the complexity of reality.. ask yourself, although I love my car how long would i spend with it in a sealed room... if this isn't in your budget then it clearly wasn't aimed at you, as its a vangurd product. mebeh... (and did you watch the whole vid..!?)

@robertabblebaum7813 7 месяцев назад

I'm more interested in this than the Vovolv, but of course they're not planning on selling it in America :/

@Ked_gaming Год назад

40k entry for a golf sized electric car is not a bargain ... Do better, manufacturers

@mgmarrison 11 месяцев назад

Not to discount the entire review (because it’s a good video), but I think Jacks summary comments say all you need to know.

@AcrimoniousMirth 11 месяцев назад

As it hasn’t been mentioned clearly so far and some may not have noted the nuance, the ”#” a.k.a. “pound” or “hash” symbol, has a long standing history of meaning “number”. So it’s not “Smart Hashtag One”, it’s “Smart Number One”.

@basfinnis Год назад

Might be cool inside but it looks like a jelly mould 😕 And £37000 isn't 'bargain' 😢

@JohnnyZenith Год назад

£37000 is a disgrace.

@protagonist9716 Год назад

All mercs designs are jelly mould.

@GregHighPressure Год назад

its bargain for a branded "electric ""mercedes""". thats what they said. context is everthing..

@evolv.e Год назад

Agreed. Just who do they think they are trying to sell this car to? At this price, just buy a MB EQ B at this point. (Or call this an EQ A)

@kraenk12 Год назад

This will sell really good. It’s fast AF , roomy and very affordable for an EV

@sydn53 Год назад

This is a perfect size SUV with plenty of luxury. ✅

@martingill6996 4 месяца назад

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Great balanced review Jack, nice looking car but 100% agree with you on too high HP and more importance of higher efficiency as a missed opportunity.

@evilutionltd Год назад

Exactly, it's not a smart, it's a miniature version of the Mercedes EQS SUV, but somehow, it has a worse turning radius than the much bigger Merc. It's not a bad looking car but there's no smart design language from the last 25 years of the brand. It was made primarily for the Asian markets who love Mercs but don't have the road space. Don't go bashing the old electric smarts. I've not needed anything else for the last 5 years. The fuel savings paid for my 1st one. The Early Learning Centre screen UI is embarrassing as is the name of the car. I don't understand why they are aiming their car marketing at pre-teens.

@evolv.e Год назад

Agreed. I own two smart electric drives and love them. This Geely mash up is sadly not something I’m interested in. Hopefully, MB will soon realize the iconic size, look, and function of the original smart design is what we really want. And why we bought the car in the first place. If they were “smart” they would have called this the #4 (number of doors and seats) and announce a #2 as the ForTwo successor. Meh, opportunity lost. Maybe next time.

@FFVoyager Год назад

For sure - a low slung EQXX type would be far more intresting than yet another 'SUV'. 🙄 Make it an estate and it could be genuinely groundbreaking.

@MyMednas Год назад

I remember estate cars, had one about 20 years ago. Like an SUV but less practical and not as nice to drive. Yep definitely remember them.

@FFVoyager Год назад

@@MyMednas carries more than a SUV and is not going to fall over going round corners. Having a smaller frontal area than the SUV jokes it would be more efficient as an EV too.

@LeightonW 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for showing under the bonnet, many reviewers forget we are interested. One omission that can be a deal breaker please mention the battery chemistry & manufacturer, I want to park the car in my garage, without fearing loss of two cars, a house, and the family, in a spontaneous battery fire.

@MaxMisterC 11 месяцев назад

How comes "Affordable cars!" are now, £10k more than the average wage?

@Spodlude 11 месяцев назад

I’ve never spent more than £5000 on a car, and hope I never will.

@edwilko8819 Год назад

£35k for a smart car a small car 35k the manufacturers are still taking the piss i see. can't wait for byd etc....to wipe the legacy brands off the map. utter greed

@Stuntman175 11 месяцев назад

This car is anything but Smart. If you pause at 9:25, you will see that it's as wide and almost as tall as a Mercedes W639 Viano, which is a small, luxury van. This car isn't solving anything whatsoever, if anything, it's just adding to the actual problem. We need smaller cars in urban settings, not more SUVs or CUVs. Smaller cars use less space, take less materials to build, are more efficient and they damage the road less due to them being lighter Both ICE and electric motors are less efficient during acceleration, they need to spend more energy to overcome friction and aerodynamic drag. Well, heavier cars generate more friction, making them by design, less efficient than a car with the same power, but lighter.

@you2bedimerda 3 месяца назад

How does it compare to a BYD ATTO 3?

@cmac3530 Год назад

It's a number sign. I refuse to refer to the symbol # as a "hashtag" unless it's specifically used in the context of a tweet. (An X-post...? Whatever Elon's calling it nowadays)

@mrbc1848vu 11 месяцев назад

As usual - very good and entertainingly useful review. So SMART! 😀

@dougowt 11 месяцев назад

A new version of the Smart Roadster would be fun

@PhineasPhlob 11 месяцев назад

3:05 great, now I'll never be able to unsee that. Thanks Jack!

@MrFatknacker 11 месяцев назад

I have both a Smart ForTwo EQ and a Mercedes EQC400 - this is in no way a replacement for my Smart ForTwo, but it may be a useful downsizing option for my Mercedes EQC400… and with that in mind I think the Brabus sounds ideal 🙂 Sadly, what is the attraction to manufacturers in making smaller cheaper EV’s when there is less market resistance and so much more margin to be made from big expensive ones 😕

@keef2000 Год назад

Surely it is the Octothorp 1😃

@milesprowerdavis7658 Год назад

Quote of the day "much better than wheel yanking" 😆

@locknut5382 11 месяцев назад

If it sold for £18,000 I might be interested, despite it having almost no storage space and looking like a sad beagle.

@John.0z Год назад

Another car with a lot of nonsense for kids in it. That comment about pandering to a young buyer is right. But IMHO that stupid fox would be a distraction when driving, and therefore it moving around on the screen is dangerous. Like many others have said, the really odd thing is to call such a large car a Smart??? Talk about demolishing the old car's position in the market. My summary is much the same as Jack's - opt for maximum possible efficiency that is affordable. Go for a disruptive market position that is not.... just another small, but tall, luxury oriented SUV. To me, that also includes getting rid of a lot of the gadgets and expensive bits like the sun roof. Or is having all of that expensive stuff deemed to be essential? Sorry MB, not interested.

@hockeyslapper 7 месяцев назад

Genuinely one of my favourite looking evs I’ve seen. Reminds me of the Mini Paceman. Too bad it’ll never be in Canada

@darrens3 10 месяцев назад

Hash 1 isn't a hashtag. It is quite literally the the way you wrote 1 to mean one as in pole position and number one in terms of racing. It denotes that its a position in a race adn not the entrant's registration number. It just means Number One.

@jimmyryan5880 Год назад

Big smart cars and minis make me sad

@evolv.e Год назад

💯 agree. This is *not* a smart I would buy. MB, please bring back the original design. 🙏🏻

@MrMarkOlson Год назад

It looks like a Mini Countryman.

@charlieverity5405 11 месяцев назад

This guy has such an easy style. I mean, instead of that bloke who is Peter Kay’’s mate, Top Gear should’ve got this presenter. Anyway, good stuff, thanks etc.

@tomp4944 11 месяцев назад

This is encouraging. Next year we'll have two remotely-reasonable choices in the form of this and the Volvo. But Jack's right -- too expensive, too fast too heavy. I'm way less interested in Mercedes interior than I am in Scion interior -- cheap and functional. Hey! Only one month until the Kia Ray EV finally comes out! We'll finally get to see small and practical done right. (You will be covering that on Fully Charged, right?)

@gmt1 Год назад

I still can't believe how many expensive cars have slow, choppy infotainment systems with bad screens. Just an instant turnoff and a major disappointment. Glad to see this one is an exception.

@edsilvester Год назад

This “feels premium” nonsense is becoming a bigger deal than the drive. (Because they’re all pretty great). Suddenly that “feel” is a MAD £10k extra. Give me the MG4 and A-LOT of change, over this.

@TDGalea 11 месяцев назад

I would absolutely refuse to call this "hashtag one". #1 = "number one" and screw anyone who tells me otherwise.

@drxym 9 месяцев назад

The Zeekr looks to be the cheapest variant of this platform. Smart #1 second and Volvo third. People going on about the Volvo clearly haven't looked at the price or what it buys comparative to similar sized vehicles.

@simonpannett8810 Год назад

£35k for a small EV car-not for 95% of the population!

@4literv6 Год назад

Which makes sense really. World wide car sales in total are bought by barely 1% of the total global population. Over here in the U.S. 85% of new car buyers were homeowners with six figure household incomes and financed the majority of the principle amount in 2022 alone. New cars haven't been for anything but the very top 10-20% of earners since just after ww2. Which is why the used vehicle market does 3-5x the volume annually vs new.

@baronxsa 6 месяцев назад

#3 is even more interesting, and not much more expensive. I'm picking mine soon

@philippayne6655 Год назад

Please don't tell me that it's affordable. You can get 2 Kia picantos ot 2 Toyota Aygos for the price of one Smart AND still have change. Admittedly they might kill one or two more polar bears than an EV but I'd take that risk

@akf2000 Год назад

Lots to dislike but that centre console barrier between the driver and passenger is bizarre

@bobsingeton2719 Год назад

Great review. Smart have missed a trick. Oh for a manufacturer that gives us - as you say - "just enough" and no more at an affordable price point.

@takumimails 10 месяцев назад

Its a really nice looking car, and seems to be pretty premium, but here in Germany it is more expensive than the ID.4. Which has so much more space. And in general feels like you get much more car for your money. I know they have different target groups, but I would choose an ID.4 over a smart #1.

@matthewbucknall8350 Год назад

I don't understand why so many EV cars have to look like orthopaedic roller skates.

@TWOKDOK1 11 месяцев назад

For my money, Jack is simply the best car reviewer around. Another very helpful, informative and intuitive performance. As for the car good, but does not really appeal; too expensive.